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How to advocate for indigenous families within colonial systems

I'm a social worker and CPS keeps removing Native kids from families for 'neglect' that's really just poverty, but when I speak up I'm told I'm being too emotional and bringing my personal bias into it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Working within institutions that perpetuate harm against one's own people creates profound moral and spiritual conflict.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — North America?”

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